RE: The Pursuance Project Launched on Reddit - Is the Blockchain Next?
Interesting in its approach to organizational structures, but is the chain going to be public? We live in a world that is increasingly dangerous for journalists and activists, state and non-state actors having access to records of who participated in which projects would be useful in their targeting of these individuals. One cannot prove credentials if they are anonymous, so is this merely a system that seeks to decentralize what other information-publishing projects have took it upon themselves to do?
Considering the vast history and experience with infiltrating groups that seek to disrupt the status quo I'm still left to wonder how they can avoid foul play from members intentionally disrupting the flow of otherwise good information in some of these structures. I'm glad people are working on things like this and attempting to bring attention to the weaknesses of centralized platforms of the sort.
The idea is very interesting But you are right, they must protect the information before launching it. Maybe with some trusted dedicated users who validate the information and add it to the blockchain. About the anonymity of the sources they had to learn to send something without being spotted (encryption pgp, Tor + VPN + not your connection + MAC adress change ... to avoid repeating things that happened with wikileaks) And only a small group of people see a single person can have access to the source that validates the information at first and the sending (no source included) to dedicated users who definitively validate the info. Or something like that, I did not really think about it.
But I think they had brainstormed about it and have much better ideas than mine.
You're making me picture a group of journalists rowing a boat offshore in the darkness of night, opening up a laptop and transmitting documents via a private satellite lol, hoping they don't get spotted by their government's navy.
Yes, there's always the fear of infiltration and I addressed this in another post on the Pursuance Project here's how they aim to prevent infiltration. This is how I understand it.
That's good to see, I'm guessing they've thought about all kinds of situations like that at this stage and I'm hoping they can adapt fast if they find an issue with members who are hard to detect. I mean for crying out loud they're willing to have relationships and babies with people in environmental groups, I don't doubt they have people who can act the part for extended periods of time if need be. I hope they have a good nose for recruiting the right people to the project and that those people can be protected properly, look forward to seeing the results of their work in the future.
In b4 a cat and mouse game of dummy documents sent to suspected infiltrators to see who's the mole lol.
In short (apparently we need it here) : MORE CENTRALIZATION ! YAY !